Mosheuvels

2 07 2008

Trying to think of something to write about.  I want to break new ground.  Want something original, not familiar.  Maybe I should try different structures… 

 

I’ve also considered signing up for a Summer II course, mostly because my brain feels mossy.  But I’m not sure that it’s worth me taking anything at UNT now.. well, it’s probably not.  What I need are classes that will apply toward a major, and I need advising to take those, and the classes will most likely all be at Texas Women’s.

I could read instead.  The last Harry Potter book still beckons.  I feel a little afraid to pick it up, so I haven’t yet, because I know it’ll suck me in.  Maybe that’s what I need, though.  It’s not escapism for me, because the magic and imagination are part of my life…  They dance and weave through my footsteps as a natural part of living.  Harry Potter would be an addition to the magical side of things, which have been running low as of late.  Lately, I feel like my head is being hit by a metal bar all the time, like I keep banging my forehead into it without seeing it.  Mossy and bruised. 

 

I need to repeat something to myself, which is:

The two-week Justin relationship was not my fault.

The two-week Justin relationship was not my fault.

The two-week Justin relationship was not my fault.

The two-week Justin relationship was not my fault.

The two-week Justin relationship was not my fault.

The two-week Justin relationship was not my fault.

The two-week Justin relationship was not my fault.

The two-week Justin relationship was not my fault.

The two-week Justin relationship was not my fault.

The two-week Justin relationship was not my fault.

Not. My. Fault.  I had every intention of staying with him for a long time, of having summer adventures with him, talking to him about being around nature and God and stuff.  I wasn’t a floozy.  I didn’t plan a fling.  It’s not my fault that he decided to pack up and leave without even trying. 

 

I need to make a list.

My Strengths

 *I have fluency and facility with words, pretty much an unintimidated command of language (in writing, not necessarily when speaking).

*I can carry a tune and have a pretty pleasing tone to my voice.  There is potential that I have yet to fulfill with that, mostly because I’m too scared to practice where people can hear me.

*I have a vivid and powerful imagination.  It has the power to buoy me tremendously, but likewise can cause other more negative states when a bad purpose fuels it.

*I’m pretty fit.  I’ve been given a gracefully proportioned body and face, actually very pretty hair, even natural slenderness.  I’m really blessed physically… the only problem is that it makes me feel guilty enjoying my body when I know other people haven’t been given as much to begin with… but on the other hand, I remember that my friend Sara got mad at me when I was self-conscious and didn’t enjoy the body I’ve been given.

*I can make myself impervious to other’s opinions.

*For most activities, when I decide that I want to do them, I can do them.

*I have a good memory.

*I’m a good speller and grammarian, generally speaking.

 

I think I’ll bike to Texas Women’s now.  I need some exercise.  I’ve got to clear away this moss.





I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more…

30 05 2008

No I ain’t, no I ain’t, no I ain’t…

Recently discovered that Bob Dylan’s songs ARE great.  And they feel like Beethoven… like open for everyone to try out and lend their own interpretation to them.  Which I will do.

 

I might quit my job at BB&B and work at the coffeeplace in Uncle Paul’s loft.  This part-time job got worn out quickly.  I at least see more and more clearly how I can’t do oh just any job lying around for the rest of my life.  It distresses me when I’m too tired the rest of the day to play music or when I get an idea while I’m at work and I can’t leave right then to do it. 

 

I really am an artist.  I guess I felt insecure for awhile about that, well, for quite awhile….  I felt like I was dodging some other more practical calling that I should fulfill, but if I really examine my values, I always value my artistic pursuits over everything else.  Like even above food, above sleep, if I don’t check myself.  I don’t want to sound silly and dramatic about it, but when I get an idea for something at work, everything around me becomes banal.  I just can’t believe that a schedule holds me there performing menial tasks when there is a GRAND CHARGE OF LIFE CALLING!  Practical things don’t hold the sort of weight in my mind that they seem to in others’ minds.  If I drew a picture where aspects of reality were represented in magnitudinal correspondence to significance… okay: work schedules, appointments, math homework (which I will NEVER have to do AGAIN!  WOOHOO!): small figures.  Ideas for films, stories, photos, drawings, songs, making those ideas concrete: big figures.  Get it?  That’s what goes on in my head, and even though a skeptical part of me is like, “Nuh uh, you could be more responsibly-minded…” and yes I could I could I could, because there is potential for everything everything everything,

I JUST DON’T CARE ABOUT THAT OTHER STUFF!

Let’s accept that and use the gifts that make holding down a silly little job difficult.





27 05 2008

No story posty, yeti.





26 05 2008

I started writing a story today.  It’s called “The Girl Who Didn’t Think”.  I might post some….